Drake Icefall
| Drake Icefall | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| width | ⌀ 3.7 km | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 45 ′ S , 83 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Union Glacier | |
The Drake Icefall ( English Drake- icefall ) is about 3.7 kilometers wide glacier in the west of the West Antarctic Heritage Range . It lies between the Soholt Peaks in the north and the Edson Hills in the south and flows over a step in the east where it meets the Union Glacier .
Expeditions found remains of trilobites in the area of the Drake Icefall .
Drake Icefall was named after Benjamin Drake IV, a geologist and member of the expedition , by a University of Minnesota Ellsworth Mountains expedition in the summer of 1962-63 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Drake Icefall ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.
- ^ GF Webers, JF Splettstoesser: Review of the geology and paleontology of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica . Ed .: US Geological Survey, The National Academies. 2007 (English, usgs.gov [PDF; accessed on July 16, 2010]).